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Research Fellow - Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia
College Office - CALE
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- Research Fellow - Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern AustraliaCollege Office - CALE
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BIO
Kyle Harvey is a Research Fellow in the College of Arts, Law and Education where he works on the ARC Linkage Project Migration, Television and Cultural Diversity: Reflecting Modern Australia. He is a historian interested in the social and cultural histories of media, migration, radical thought, and social movements in Australia, the United States, and the Pacific. He is also an experienced oral historian with interests in family history, memory, and biography. Kyle held the 2013 C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship at the State Library of New South Wales.
Biography
Kyle was awarded his PhD in American history from Macquarie University, where he also taught Australian history, world history, and film history. His PhD research was awarded funding from Smith College (USA), the University of California-Los Angeles, and the Australia & New Zealand American Studies Association. At Macquarie, Kyle also developed online teaching resources, helped develop the Media Archives Project, and served as project manager for the edited volume A Companion to the Australian Media (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014).
Kyle’s first book, American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace was published in 2014 with Palgrave Macmillan. His research as the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales in 2013 has contributed to several journal articles and book chapters, and forms the basis of a new project on North America’s “nuclear migrants” who arrived in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s. This project has also been supported by a Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Kyle developed an oral history of the Australia & New Zealand History of Education Society as its 2018 Oral History Fellow.
Qualifications
Ph.D., Macquarie University, Australia, 2012
B.A. with First Class Honours, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2006
Administrative expertise
Kyle served as project manager on the research project that produced the edited volume A Companion to the Australian Media, a 400,000 word compendium of historical research on the Australian press, broadcasting and new media sectors.
He currently manages, and serves as a Research Fellow, on the ARC Linkage Project Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia, and works with colleagues at the University of Tasmania, University of Wollongong, Museums Victoria and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in developing academic and public outputs.
Biography
Kyle was awarded his PhD in American history from Macquarie University, where he also taught Australian history, world history, and film history. His PhD research was awarded funding from Smith College (USA), the University of California-Los Angeles, and the Australia & New Zealand American Studies Association. At Macquarie, Kyle also developed online teaching resources, helped develop the Media Archives Project, and served as project manager for the edited volume A Companion to the Australian Media (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014).
Kyle’s first book, American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace was published in 2014 with Palgrave Macmillan. His research as the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales in 2013 has contributed to several journal articles and book chapters, and forms the basis of a new project on North America’s “nuclear migrants” who arrived in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s. This project has also been supported by a Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Kyle developed an oral history of the Australia & New Zealand History of Education Society as its 2018 Oral History Fellow.
Qualifications
Ph.D., Macquarie University, Australia, 2012
B.A. with First Class Honours, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2006
Administrative expertise
Kyle served as project manager on the research project that produced the edited volume A Companion to the Australian Media, a 400,000 word compendium of historical research on the Australian press, broadcasting and new media sectors.
He currently manages, and serves as a Research Fellow, on the ARC Linkage Project Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia, and works with colleagues at the University of Tasmania, University of Wollongong, Museums Victoria and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in developing academic and public outputs.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Research FellowUniversity of Tasmania, Australia1 Jan 2017 - present
SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO
- College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education